A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006.

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“‘Media’ is the plural of ‘mediocre‘“
“‘Quotes on the Internet are becoming less and less reliable.’—Abraham Lincoln”
“A fairy tale is a horror story to prepare children for the newspapers”
“A journalist is an unemployed reporter”
“A magazine is a bunch of printed pages that tell you what’s coming in the next issue”
“A voice for print”
“All publicity is good publicity” ("There is no such thing as bad publicity")
“Bury the lede” ("Bury the lead")
“Check a story, lose a story”
“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark…”
“Don’t believe everything you read in the papers”
“Editorials like skirts—long enough to cover everything, short enough to be interesting”
“Editors choose their stories, but sometimes stories choose their editors”
“Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen”
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing”
“El campeon de los hispanos” (El Diario La Prensa)
“Every reporter is a hope; every editor is a disappointment”
“Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” (newsboy shout)
“First draft of history” (journalism)
“Get It First, But First Get It Right” (International News Service)
“Google before you tweet is the new think before you speak”
“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress”
“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid”
“Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don’t”
“I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody”
“If it bleeds, it leads”
“If you can’t say something nice, become a reporter”
“If you don’t hit the reader between the eyes in your first sentence, there’s no need to write more”
“If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own”
“If you don’t read a newspaper, you’re uninformed; if you do read one, you’re misinformed”
“If your mother says she loves you, check it out”
“Information is power, but like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves”
“It Shines For All” (New York Sun)
“It’s darkest before dawn, so that’s the best time to steal a neighbor’s newspaper”
“Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound”
“Journalism is literature in a hurry”
“Journalism: A profession to explain to others what it personally does not understand”
“Local advertising is sold, not bought”
“Man bites dog”
“Names make the news”
“Never underestimate the intelligence of your readers, but never overestimate their knowledge”
“New York’s Small-Town Paper” (New York Observer)
“News never sleeps”
“Nina” in Al Hirschfeld’s caricatures (New York Times)
“No news is good news; no journalists is even better”
“Not Just Wall Street. Every Street.” (New York Times slogan)
“Nothing is older than yesterday’s newspaper”
“Nothing Sacred But the Truth” (New York Observer)
“Proofread carefully to see if you any words out”
“Q: How do journalists count? A: One, two, trend.” (joke)
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